Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-01-28

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sHEpHERDsTown, WEST VIRGINIA.
Friday. January 2s, 1857.
The much boosted ''Jeffersonian De-
mocracy" of Mr.. Daniel B. Lucas will
in the future be at a discount in this
county. exc
Ir has been decided that contracts
made ty telephone are binding. If the
girl at the central station works her
wires well she can soon have binding
engagement.
publish in another column a SYM
opsis of the interstate commerce bill
recently passed by both houses of Con-
gres.. The bill only needs the sigma
ture of the President TO become law.
IT is stated as fact that twelve OF
the thirteen Democrats who refused to
no into caucus are candidates for office,
while large sprinkling hope that the
Senatorial lightning will strike their
way.
HEREroFoRs Mr.. Z. b. Lucas has
found some difficulty in getting the
Democrats of this county to "stick 10 the
nominee of the convention" when he
was that nominee. Taking their cue
from Mr.. Lucas himself, no Democrat
need be under the slightest obligation
in the future to support him-nominee or
no nominee.
AT last a baggage sma,her has been
caught. On the Pennsylvania Railroad
the other day one of these fellows was
throwing a trunk around tina; happened
TO contain some dynamite. The stun
exploded aud blew the car to pieces and
scared the baggage-man into fits. tie
will hereafter treat trunks with more
consideration.
THERE il rumor from Washington
10 the effect that there is TO hea general
dismissal of Republicans in the Treas
nry Department, beginning in Commits
sioner MIller's division. Candor COM
pels us to acknowledge that in Commits
sioner Miller's division there are just lots
of Republicans whose places ought to be
given to Democrats.
VIZ are forced to go to press this week
without obtaining any definite news
from Charleston in relation to the cleo
ton Of Senator. Our latest advlces are
that Camden is still holding his own and
that the will of the majority is still de-
feated by less than dozen obstreperous
members of the party. The Republicans
are still voting for their own candidates.
Col. r.. p. CHEW. of jefferson county, Is
spoken Of as candidate for the next govern
orship of this Wheeling Register.
Under what flag will Col. Chew fight?
After his refusal to participate in a eau
Gus demanded ard held by a large
majority of his party he cannot surely
expect to receive nomination from or
be supported by the members OF that
party.
ALL signs point to great war in
Europe during the ensuing year. The
leading powers are engaged in war
like preparations, even down to the
smallest details, and now seem to be
waiting only for an excuse to begin the
attack. The best informed newspapers
of the old world agree that there is every
probability OF the fight beginning in the
spring.
Who should receive the nomination
for United States Senator, or for any
other office i'm the Democratic party ?
Every reasonable man must say, the one
who receives majority of the voters OF
his party. Yet about one-fourth of the
Democratic members of the Legislature
went against this principle, and tried to
thwart the will Of the majority, or the
other three-fourths.
The United States Senate On Monday
passed bill the object of which is to
authorize the President to make retail